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First food post! Here we go...
I always try to keep lunch light and super healthy. I mean come on.... we have dinner and dessert coming up later on the day to ruin it all right?
This recipe is all about using your greens. Green vegetables are the best ones for you so let's dive right in and get cooking. There is no stove time required for this recipe and there were only 3 dirty dishes to clean up. How much better can this get?!
1. First, get out everything you would like to go in your tuna/chicken mix. Depending on the day I will grab a chicken packet or a tuna packet; today it was tuna.
2. Put the whole tuna/chicken packet in a bowl and one whole avocado and set aside. I leave the juice from the packet to stay in the recipe. It is not much and it keeps the mix from being too dry. Plus it adds a little bit more original flavor but you can choose to drain it if you would like.
3. Cut up your ingredients. Basically I just search my refrigerator for anything green and throw it in but if you don't have everything I have shown you can substitute anything. Like I said, I tried to keep it really green today but any type of vegetable will still work and still be healthy!
4. Throw everything that you cut up in your bowl with tuna/chicken and avocado. Lastly add a little bit of seasoning and lemon or lime juice to help intensify the flavor of your dish. I use lemon pepper (no salt added) and since that included lemon I ended up using half of a fresh squeezed lime.
5. Lastly, mix everything together! I just use my hands because then I can really blend everything together really well. Pair with any type of cracker or just eat with a fork. Enjoy :)
Prep time: 10 minutes Cook time: none Servings: 2
Ingredients:
2.6-3 oz. of shredded tuna/chicken
1 ripe avocado
1/8 cup chopped red onion
1/4 cup diced green pepper
1 tbsp. of fresh cilantro
1/2 tsp. of lemon pepper
lemon and lime to taste - I used half a lime
15 Wheat Thins Fiber Select Vegetable Garden Crackers
Nutritional Facts: (remember this was a 2 serving recipe)
Calories - 220
Calories from fat - 23
Sodium - 165 mg. 7%
117 of the calories came from the avocado which is equivalent to 1.25 tbsp. of mayonnaise. It is really hard to get a creamy mixture using such a small amount of mayo and so everyone always puts way more in than you are suppose to. So it may look like a lot of calories but they are healthy calories! :) Always remember that you can substitute avocado in place of mayonnaise. That is what this recipe did and made it a ton healthier!
Make it your own! Like I said above, if you don't have all of these ingredients substitute something very similar to it.
- I absolutely love buying a rotisserie chicken and shredding it and using it for multiple meals, this included! It is very tasty.
- If you don't like red onion use a yellow, white onion, or even a green onion! Yum. And if you don't like onion period, then use 1/2 tsp. onion powder or leave it out all together. It will not hurt the flavor of the recipe.
- I also had a red pepper and orange pepper that I could have used and it would have still have been great. I love changing peppers with this recipe because it gives it a different taste all together. Orange peppers are my favorite because they are sweet.
- If you don't have fresh cilantro then use dry cilantro.
- If you don't have fresh lemons or limes then use the juice from the already juiced bottles like I have included in my pictures. Same great taste.